Matthew McConaughey
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
The real true meaning of that is not doing something for self at expense of your neighbor or harming others.
for personal profit and pleasure that also is profit and pleasure for, in a utilitarian sense, more of others.
And there's, again, back to the paradox, I think there's a place, I know there's a place, I believe there's a place where those are in sync.
And when my ego's healthy, I'm able to say I'm sorry sooner for a lie or a misdemeanor or harming somebody
I'm able to be more empathetic because I got the confidence to be so.
I'm able to be more humble, but still have my chin high and my heart high and look in the eye and go, yep, my bad, bogey, guilty.
I shanked that one out of bounds, man.
Who was he before he started a business, before he was on a crusade, before he went to alternative medicines?
know the the the obvious thing people always talk about well how'd you lose all that weight that was not hard that was just a militaristic decision this is what i can eat each day and if i do this each day for a week i'll lose 2.5 pounds in a week so i'm going to give myself five months to do that 2.5 times that's 10 there's go there's 47 pounds that was like clockwork so that was easy that decision was made
I didn't go to the Pizza Hut buffet and have temptation in front of me.
I had certain meals.
I ate that and the weight just went off like clockwork.
It was the, who is Ron Woodruff in between the lines?
And what the gift I got given that gave me the insight to who that man was, was I went to see his family.
And as I was leaving, his family offered me his diary.
And I remember kind of hesitant going, wow, yes, but I kind of hesitated because it felt maybe a little too intimate of a thing for me to have.
I felt like it was kind of maybe infringing a bit, but I opened my hand and took it.
And what I got in the diary was I got to know who Ron was before he had HIV.
And little thing, the diary he'd write in and the dreamer he was and getting all set on a Sunday night and laying his shirt out and ironing it for the next morning, making sure that his little pager had fresh batteries in it because tomorrow morning he was going across town to hook up some speakers.
or 38 bucks or whatever.